tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685065582281848343.post401817886770211089..comments2023-09-28T03:28:17.063-04:00Comments on 3 Ring Binder: In Her Own WordsLynnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12178771612031280593noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685065582281848343.post-30311548654259889622011-11-15T14:05:24.180-05:002011-11-15T14:05:24.180-05:00First, I am not defending Bernie Madoff. He is a ...First, I am not defending Bernie Madoff. He is a crook, purposefully defrauding people and is in jail where he belongs under objective laws to protect individual rights. Insofar as other financial actors used force and fraud to take away people's money, they also deserve to be in jail. Other than the government's force used in bailing the industry out, where is the force? <br /><br />I am most definitely NOT an anarchist. I am simply an advocate for individual rights and for a government that protects them, not by violating them when the individual is wealthy, black, gay, Jewish or whatever attribute is currently out of favor.Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12178771612031280593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685065582281848343.post-86292611418208785612011-11-15T12:36:42.055-05:002011-11-15T12:36:42.055-05:00When large financial interests perform acts that t...When large financial interests perform acts that take away assets of people, and the people have no recourse, according to Jefferson, Locke and Montesquieu, the people should be able to pass a law to prevent thefts in the future.<br /><br />Warren proposed such a law and got it passed, all the more remarkable because she was not an elected official at the time.<br /><br />If you believe theft is okay because it is so technical that common law doesn't cover it, you're not prepared for America in the late 19th century.<br /><br />Morality involves more than just law, and freedom does not imply license to steal -- or should not.<br /><br />I'm still mystified why anyone would defend Bernie Madoff's views. Do you consider yourself an anarchist?Ed Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056539160596825210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685065582281848343.post-1750597512557869252011-11-14T06:05:01.104-05:002011-11-14T06:05:01.104-05:00Thank you for your comment Mr. Darrell.
I have n...Thank you for your comment Mr. Darrell. <br /><br />I have not misimagined her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=htX2usfqMEs" rel="nofollow">fanning the flames of class warfare</a>, blaming those who have money for having it on the backs of those who don't, and calling for even more government oversight of our economy which allows for, I'd say even encourages, less personal responsibility. <br /><br />The political differences we have relates to the role of government: the proper role of government is to protect individual rights. If force and fraud were used against individuals, they should be able to seek justice from an impartial and objective government. More than that and the government begins to pick winners and losers, at which point, we all become losers. We lose our individual rights.<br /><br />Elizabeth Warren appeals to people's sense that <i>someone must be to blame</i>, <i>someone must pay</i>, and the petty envy question of <i>how come they have so much money and the rest of us are struggling?</i> She metaphorically rounds up the wealthy and blames them en masse without warrant. This is in clear contradiction to a government that protects individual rights.Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12178771612031280593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685065582281848343.post-31841415624020246722011-11-14T04:52:07.359-05:002011-11-14T04:52:07.359-05:00Warren urges personal responsibility, and honesty ...Warren urges personal responsibility, and honesty in dealings -- stuff that she wrote into the law that the House Republicans are now trying to vitiate.<br /><br />Somehow I suspect she's referring to those parts of the "99% platform" and not to what you've misimagined it to be here.<br /><br />Warren is campaigning to change Washington, to bring more responsibility to the financial sector. <br /><br />I am greatly puzzled at why anyone other than Bernie Madoff or Jeffrey Skilling would object, or do anything but applaud those efforts.Ed Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056539160596825210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685065582281848343.post-86951695175415789202011-11-07T16:12:24.345-05:002011-11-07T16:12:24.345-05:00Hmmm. Now I might have to rethink my disdain for t...Hmmm. Now I might have to rethink my disdain for the entire movement.Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12178771612031280593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685065582281848343.post-36084653670388397712011-11-07T15:50:56.279-05:002011-11-07T15:50:56.279-05:00"The Man" looks like a Storm Trooper to ..."The Man" looks like a Storm Trooper to me.Katrinanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-685065582281848343.post-76424206787382700042011-11-05T13:50:16.977-04:002011-11-05T13:50:16.977-04:00It looks like that Elizabeth Warren is one of the ...It looks like that Elizabeth Warren is one of the witch doctors to all of the occupy Attilas. But while the other witch doctors like Andy Stern and Van Jones are downplaying their contributions - to give the verisimilitude of a grassroots movement a boost - looks like Warren wants to lead this parade. Or swarm of locusts. <br /><br />c andrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com